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Book Review: “The Endless Week” Offers a Brave, Inside-Out Internet Novel Experience

September 30, 2025
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“The Endless Week” is a brave, uneven, at times brilliant swathe of prose. Experimental? For certain. Perhaps the only way to write an Internet novel is by looking from the inside out.

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Dance Review: Choreographer Leonid Yakobson — Soviet Rebel Under Cover

September 22, 2015
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Boston Ballet’s reconstructed versions of Yakobson’s Pas de Quatre and four Choreographic Miniatures were a revelation.

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Book Review: “Matisse at War” — The Makings of a Spy Thriller

September 30, 2025
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All in all, this is a crisp, entertaining, and, so far as I can see, an accurate account of the last acts in Henri Matisse’s career.

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Film Festival Reviews: New York Film Festival’s 2025 “Revivals”

October 2, 2025
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Because NYFF’s “Revivals” supplement showcases new restorations, the expectation is that these movies, including art films from around the world, should become more widely available down the road.

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Book Review: “The Lioness of Boston” — The Mystery Remains

September 17, 2023
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Too often, “Lioness” reads like a digest of Boston tourist guides and historical surveys, at times even seeming to quote them directly.

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Theater Review: “The Hills of California” — The Power of Family Matters

September 27, 2025
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The play eventually packs a wallop, but it drags its feet at the start.

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Book Review: “Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld” — A Tale of Mobsters and Musicians

August 3, 2022
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Guitarist Eddie Condon quotes a mobster on jazz: “…it’s got guts and it don’t make you slobber.”

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Concert Preview: Local Boys Make Cool Jazz — The Levin Brothers Reunite

March 24, 2017
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One of my favorite quotes from Gil Evans is, “Quit playing what you think I want you to play!”

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Book Review: “The Search for John Lennon” — Going Down the Wrong Road

April 7, 2021
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In her search for John Lennon, the author follows her fancy and picks and chooses which rocks she wants to look under, all the while giving herself the space to wax poetic on whatever theme moves her. It’s an appealing approach. Too bad then that the book is a let down.

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Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

November 30, 2023
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This week’s poem: DeWitt Henry’s “From the Horse’s Mouth”

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